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Could you help me please?

Ali S
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Could you help me please?
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Dear
Hope everything is going well with you all
I need your help
How can I rewrite the instructions below to make it clearer and easier to understand.
"In order to ascertain the meaning, you are required use the contextual clues within the passage of prose:
Thanks in advance
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7 Mar 2013
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cagreis
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Is this an instruction for an item in a written test? Then I would simply say: Use the text (the context) to figure out (discover) the meaning of the words. |
7 Mar 2013
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yanogator
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cagreis �s answer sounds good to me. Bruce |
7 Mar 2013
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libertybelle
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Just thought I �d add that the original has a grammatical error:
"In order to ascertain the meaning, you are required TO use the contextual clues within the passage of prose:
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7 Mar 2013
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